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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 27, 1998
Filed:
Jun. 26, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Continental Aktiengesellschaft, Hanover, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
D02G / ; B60C / ; F16G / ; B32B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
428375 ; 428380 ; 428381 ; 428379 ; 152451 ; 152565 ; 474260 ; 474268 ; 474271 ;
Abstract
A rubber article has a body consisting of rubber and a reinforcement structure with cables embedded in the rubber body. The cables have at least one inner layer with at least one first filament wherein at least one first filament consists of a metallic alloy. The outermost layer has second filaments embedded adhesively in the rubber body. All of the first and second filaments that consist of a metallic alloy are coated with a corrosion-protective coating. The corrosion-protective coating for at least one of the first filaments consists of an intrinsically conductive polymer.